5.14.1. Installation of Coreutils

Prepare Coreutils for compilation:

DEFAULT_POSIX2_VERSION=199209 ./configure --prefix=/tools

This package has an issue when compiled against versions of Glibc
later than 2.3.2. Some of the Coreutils utilities (such as
head,
tail, and
sort) will reject
their traditional syntax, a syntax that has been in use for
approximately 30 years. This old syntax is so pervasive that
compatibility should be preserved until the many places where it is
used can be updated. Backwards compatibility is achieved by setting
the DEFAULT_POSIX2_VERSION environment
variable to “199209” in the
above command. If you do not want Coreutils to be backwards
compatible with the traditional syntax, then omit setting the
DEFAULT_POSIX2_VERSION environment variable.
It is important to remember that doing so will have consequences,
including the need to patch the many packages that still use the
old syntax. Therefore, it is recommended that the instructions be
followed exactly as given above.

Compile the package:

make

To test the results, issue: make
RUN_EXPENSIVE_TESTS=yes check. The RUN_EXPENSIVE_TESTS=yes parameter tells
the test suite to run several additional tests that are considered
relatively expensive (in terms of CPU power and memory usage) on
some platforms, but generally are not a problem on Linux.